{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-47.35",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-47.35.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/909",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025",
  "path": "rule/47.35",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "47.35",
  "heading": "When this Section applies",
  "text": "(1) This Section applies where—\n(a) under section 1 of the Police (Property) Act 1897, a magistrates’ court can—\n(i) order the return to the owner of property which has come into the possession of the police or the National Crime Agency in connection with an investigation of a suspected offence, or\n(ii) make such order with respect to such property as the court thinks just, where the owner cannot be ascertained; and\n(b) a Crown Court judge can—\n(i) order the return of seized property under section 59(4) of the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001, or\n(ii) order the examination, retention, separation or return of seized property under section 59(5) of the Act.\n(2) In this Section, a reference to a person with ‘a relevant interest’ in seized property means someone from whom the property was seized, or someone with a proprietary interest in the property, or someone who had custody or control of it immediately before it was seized.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 47.35 in force at 6.10.2025, see Preamble"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1897 c. 30; section 1 was amended by sections 33 and 36 of, and Part III of Schedule 3 to, the Theft Act 1968 (c. 60), section 58 of the Criminal Justice Act 1972 (c. 71), section 192 of, and Part I of Schedule 5 to, the Consumer Credit Act 1974 (c. 39), the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 (c. 43) and section 4 of the Police (Property) Act 1997 (c. 30)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2001 c. 16."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2026/721",
      "affecting_title": "The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 2026"
    },
    {
      "type": "word omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2026/721",
      "affecting_title": "The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/909/rule/47.35",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:12:44.140935+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}